Interim Tangled Wires_025
Item
- Title
- Interim Tangled Wires_025
- Alternative Title
- Interim Tangled Wires and a Woodpecker on a Steel Pole
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image showcases a journal page with a photograph of a person lying in a hospital bed on the left side. The page is adorned with various collage elements, including textured papers in yellow, gray, and black, as well as a small red bird cutout. The right side of the page contains handwritten text, with the title "FLYING" at the top. The text discusses two phone calls from friends, one of whom is battling breast cancer, and the other who is undergoing chemotherapy.
- Identifier
- 003_070620-081620_interim_tangled_wires
- Dates Completed
- July 6, 2020 - August 16, 2020
- Keywords
- Tangled wires; Woodpecker; Trees; Beauty; Destruction of nature; Parent-child responsibilities; Let Me Walk in Beauty; Lakota Sioux; Chief Yellow Lark; Public Parks; Trust for Public Land; Creative process; Flowers; Loss; Black veil collage; Covid-19; Candy Dickenson Becher; Drop metaphor; Gretchen Dykstra; Double mastectomy; Dream of parents; Breast cancer; God laughs at plans; 29 Pieces planning; Cardinals; Cardinal collages; Sibyl Dana Reynolds; Institutional breakdowns; BLM; BLM collage; Parental meditations; Potatoes and pride; Life stages; Gretchen’s kimono; Friendships; Past and present; Neighbor tree dispute; Manifest or dissolve; Contagious grace; Commodification of beauty
- Transcription
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FLYING
JULY 24, 2020
Two phone calls. Two friends
with breast cancer.
Gretchen called emo-
tionally in tears. She'd
looked at her new chemo
scarred, bruised chest and
she was hit by the brutal-
ity of it. She says the cancer
doesn't scare her. (It scares
me.) She was at an emotional
low. The blow hit her. But
the cancer is gone. She
will be strong and find
her path again.
Lorraine called and
texted. The latest - very
expensive - chemo drug is
not working. And Gretchen - Rights
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